AP Bio Chapter 14 Vocabulary Flashcards
Trait
Each variant for a character
Character
A heritable feature that varies among individuals
True-breeding
Varieties that only produced the same variety of parent plant in self pollinations
Hybridization
Mating or crossing of two true breeding varieties
P generation
True breeding parents (parental generation)
F1 generation
Hybrid offspring of “parental generation”
First filial generation
F2 generation
2nd filial generation
The offspring created by the self pollination
Or cross pollination with other F1 hybrids
Punnett square
Handy diagram device fir predicting an allele composition of offspring from a cross of individuals known genotypes
Monohybrids
Heterozygous for a particular character following in a cross
Dihybrids
Individuals heterozygous for the two characters being followed in the cross